Chas Roemer blames Gov. Bobby Jindal for education 'fiasco'

Takes some blame for Common Core woes

11:34 PM,
Aug. 4, 2014

Chas Roemer, president of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, speaks about the board's dispute with Gov. Bobby Jindal over the Common Core education standards on Monday in Baton Rouge. Roemer is a strong supporter of the standards, and his board is involved in a lawsuit against the governor for Jindal's efforts to undermine the standards.

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

While blaming Gov. Bobby Jindal for the current "fiasco" over adopting a test to assess student learning this year, the head of the state's top public school board says it and the State Department of Education bear some of the responsibility for concerns over Common Core.

The governor is trying to ride a growing grassroots wave of opposition and is fighting to kill Common Core by prohibiting the state department and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from administering a test based on the standards. That effort has stymied progress toward developing an assessment test for this ...